Vegetable-slicer



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E. M00131. VEGETABLE SLIUBR.

No. 562,613. Patented June 23, 1896.

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EMIL JACCBI, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

VEGETABLE-SLICER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,613, dated June 23, 1896.

, Application filed August 14, 1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EMIL JAOOBI, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Slicers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in vegetable-slicers; and the objects of my improvements are simplicity and economy in construction and general efficiency and convenience in operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my vegetable-slicer. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal section of a portionthereof on the line 00 so of Fig.1, but with the holder slipped along into a different position from that shown in said figure. Fig. 4. is a transverse section on the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detached plan view of the nutholder. Fig. 6 is a plan view, on the same scale as Fig. 1, of my slicer in a modified form, with one side gage removed and a portion of the knife broken away. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the same.

A designates the bed, which serves as the frame of the. machine. At each side edge I secure guide-rails 8 8, which are grooved out on their inner and opposing faces to form ways for the holder to slide in. Said rail is provided with slotted lugs 9, and threaded studs 10, provided with thumb-nuts 11, project from the side edges of the bed through the slots in said lugs, whereby the guide-rails may be adjusted so as to project a greater or less distance above the plane upper surface of the bed. Each guide-rail is also provided with a middle lug 12, having a knife-mortise 13, Figs. 2 and 4,and providedwith a threaded shank 14, upon which is screwed the adjusting thumbnut 15. Said nut is provided with a groove 16, into which groove a portion of the nut-holder 17 is fitted, and said nut-holder shown separately in Fig. 5) is secured to the bed, whereby the adjusting thumb nut 15 may be rotated, although held against moving en dwise, so that when the thumb-nuts 11 are loosened turning the adjusting-nut 15 will adjust the position of the guide-rails with reference to their projection from the plane face of the bed.

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side rails 20, transverse bars 21, and thumb screws 22. The outer sideedges of the side rails of the holder are fitted to the grooves or ways of the guide-rails, as best shown in Fig. 4..

The vegetable may be placed within the holder and the transverse bars 21 adjusted to bear against the same and hold it in the holder. The guide-rails and knife are then adjusted to raise the knife-edge at any desired elevation above the upper surface of the bed, according to the thickness of the slices desired. The operator then moves the vegetable in the holder forward and back over the knife, cutting a slice therefrom at each pass, as there is always one edge facing the vegetable, no matter from which direction it is presented to the knife.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown substantially the same general construction without the vegetable-holder. Ais the bed; 18*,the knife, having the same beveled block as before; but instead of guide-rails for the holder I employ simple side gages 23 for direct contact with the vegetable, which side gages I consider the equivalent of the side rails in all structures where the special holder is omitted. These gages with the ends of the knife are secured by screws 24 to the upper end of the sliding blocks 25, which slide between the ears 26 of the nut-holder 27. The sliding block is bored and threaded to receive a portion of the threaded body of the screw 2 1, so as to hold said side gages, knife, and block rigidly together while the end of said screw projects through the nut-holder 27 and receives the adjusting thumb-nut 15, said nut being grooved and held within its holder, as in the construction of the like nuts hereinbe fore described. The adjustment of the knife is the same as before, and the knife also cuts when the vegetable is presented from either direction; but instead of using a holder to scope of my invention. 10'

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the bed, the guiderails, the knife connected With said guide,

rails, screws connected With the combined knife and guide-rails, nut-holders at the side edges of said bed and the adjusting-nuts mounted to rotate in said nut-holders, sub stantially as described and for the purpose specified.

2. In a vegetable-slicer, the combination of the side rails, with the vegetable-holder consisting of longitudinally-slotted side rails 20 fitted to slide longitudinally in said guiderails, the bars 21 extending transversely to said guide-rails, and thumb-nuts 22, whereby said bars 21 are adjustable to and from each other in the longitudinal direction of said bed, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the bed, the guiderails extending along the side edges of said bed,the knife mounted on said guide-rails,the adjustable vegetable-holder mounted to slide over said knife, and means for adjusting said guid e-rails, knife and vegetable-holder bodily to and from said bed, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

EMIL JACOBI.

Witnesses:

RICHARD JACOBI, ROBERT G. DUNBAR. 

